june13sleever

You all are so brave! I wish I had the courage. I probably will have no choice but to go to mexico! Do they take care credit? I need fat transfer into butt and thigh lift...just went for a consultation and dr. Said these should be separate surgeries.

Personally I do believe it was the easy way. With the exception of my not so fun first six months this has been fairly easy. Why do people always want to struggle. I understand hard work and how by working hard and accomplishing a goal can provide satisfaction, but washing my car at the car wash makes me feel just as good as washing the car myself. I might save a little more money by washing it myself, but for me, I like the fact that someone else can wash it. Now if only I could get my MBA that easy! I do believe people who elect to have this surgery are fed up and tired of struggling. I do believe we had to make a scary and tough decision to go through with the surgery. For us, just to do that, says a lot about our character. We either felt hopeless and just like a drug addict had hit rock bottom or we knew that we could keep going year after year and opted to change our lives. We are not scared. We are strong. I see people everyday that need this surgery, but opt not to take a risk. We are risk takers! You don't get anywhere by sitting in the sidelines.

These past two days I have been feeling hungry!!! Must remember to get cucumbers the week before my period! I basically ate two dinners tonight! I also need the sugar free popsicles! 7 days of eating like this and I could totally see some weight gain. Today I probably ate 2000 calories easy! I Only had high calorie foods! What low calorie foods pack a good punch in terms of volume?

With over a year out these days always scare me. I know it is because my period is coming! I gotta make sure these next few days I watch it!!!

What is sublingual?

I am 5'11". I am wearing a size 8! I have never in my life been this thin and I am going to do everything in my power to wear a bikini and feel like a super model. Plastics, whatever! I started finally working out. I want to be a size 6. With the skin removal probably would be a size 6!

It is weird but I find that taking a small sip or two of a drink keeps me full longer. So I eat less because I know I am going to have a sip of a drink.

I will not miss the fact that hotel towels only cover up 1/2 my body and the bathrobes don't cover my thighs all the way!

I will also not miss the fear of getting on an elevator with other people and wondering if it will bounce too much because of my weight.

I will not miss the tears. I will not miss eater's remorse because I stuffed myself. I will not miss McDonald's. I will not miss Lane Bryant - however it is the longest store card I have ever had so I will keep it and use it occasionally to buy jewelry so that they keep reporting me to the credit bureaus I will not miss sitting on any couch anywhere and using a pillow (if available) to cover up my stomach. I will not miss people moving out of my way when they pass by me. I will not miss me saying...I don't eat that much I don't know why I am fat. (obviously I was eating that much) I will not miss feeling like crap everyday. I will not miss being self conscience all the time and avoiding most social situations. I will not miss my mattress caving in. I will not miss my feet hurting every morning.

I am 35 and my neck has this weird thing going on but who cares! I feel I can see more lines but when I watch TV all the actresses have them so I am thinking it is normal!

I actually went to Dr. Salameh...why?...because he was the only one who took care credit but he was a great choice! I work at the Crime Museum. If everyone wants to get together one day we could all meet at my museum and have a meet up! It might be fun!

The doctors in DC are the most expensive in the entire country! Dr. Markmann wants like $19k for a Brazilian butt lift. That is just ridiculous. I have a consultation in September with a surgeon in VA. I told myself that I would not have surgery until I really gave good effort in working out. I really am going to start now. I finally feel ready...which ever since I have been taking vitamin D and b-12 I feel better. I was kind of in a funk, but I am ready ready ready! So I will see him for pricing, but wouldn't consider doing anything until January or February. I do feel like my body is changing but only time will tell. Then the whole $20k for plastics!! That just is overwhelming. I still owe $5k for the sleeve! I have to pay that by November soni don't get charged any interest. I just wish I had $50k to pay everything off & have plastics! Thigh lift, lower body lift, breast lift, Botox, and whatever else!!! Surprisingly I am totally fine with my arms.

No regrets. I love watching at the people be stuffed after eating and I am just slightly full. I still have great restriction after a year and two months. My doctor's goal was 180, my goal was 170...I weigh 165 and I am still losing. I lost 4 pounds last month! I do not see it. I know I am waaaaaay thinner, but I still feel thick. I take pics...that is the way I notice. I hope to lose another 15, but where I am is pretty fabulous!

I was a month! But I was self pay.

I had no gas or nausea. I just had pain where the incisions were for 5 weeks. The pain was pretty bad for me. Guess I don't do well with them cutting through my muscle.

Mine is still falling out. No regrowth. 1 year and two months out. Still losing too.

I am on this site a lot. I lost a lot! I am pretty thin now. A lot of people struggle. At first I thought maybe those people who were struggling didn't make the first six months count because they were told to eat 1200 calories. I DO NOT advocate eating that many calories!!!! But besides the fact that I did not eat that many I looked at what other people say and in another way I differ from some people is that I would never sit around eating for an hour in order to get all my food down. I literally eat 10 bites of food...pretty quickly, and I stop. I feel satisfied and in two to three hours I am eating again, but again I eat a couple bites, quickly and then stop as soon as the hunger is gone. I also remember my nutritionist telling me to eat slowly, chew my food and that a meal might take a long time to get down. Just a theory that maybe you shouldn't eat for so long just to get your meal down. You can eat again later.

Now that I am a year out...I eat. I just stop after a serving because that is enough to satisfy the craving.

Maybe that is why I am 5'11" now! I swore I was 5'10"!!!

My boyfriend was eating my protein bars, and if I hide them he says...why are you hiding them! So I buy my yummy clif bars and I buy him whatever is on sale! It irked me because I would buy just enough for the week then he would be up all night just eating all the stuff I bought so I would have to go to the store again. Thank goodness he doesn't eat my cheese sticks or Chobani!!! Those damn protein bars are expensive! I created a snack drawer for me and one for him. He gets whatever is on sale!

I said 170, my doctor said 180. I am over a year from surgery and weighed 169 today and now I want 150 to 160. I am 5'11". You should be happy wherever you are, but push yourself for more. In order for me to get to 150 at this point I would have to eat like I did the first couple of months...800 calories. I might try it, but I think I might be too hungry. We shall see.

Started at 291 Weigh 171 now 120 down 1 year and one month out 5'11" Want to lose 16 more, but ok where I am. Will start to finally work out this week coming up. I hope I stick with it. Skin is pretty bad. Going for consult in August 3rd for inner thigh lift. Wouldn't have the surgery until January. I want to enter the whillimeana 30+ model contest. I actually want to model...which is what I should have done had I not been fat.

My skin is horrible...Probably not as bad as some people and probably worse than some. My butt is all saggy. Looks like a granny butt. Then my hair has not grown back. My thighs are all wrinkly. I am just have a bad day. No regrets at all, but it just sucks. I lost all my muscle. I can't even lift what I used to. Pity party for me today. I wore a bikini on the beach and still felt so self conscience. I don't think I can go through a lower body lift or thigh lift or tummy tuck. I want them, but surgery is not easy. What if the scars look terrible. I wish I never got fat when I was a little girl. All the damage, stretch marks...It sucks.

I miss my butt